Thanks Dan for suggesting some alternatives. Unfortunately most of them are not really convenient or simple. What about a 5th alternative which would be simply to "Install Debian 10 (buster/testing)" ? In theory as it has a more modern kernel version the module/driver for this new RAID card should be supported. What do you think except for the fact that this is a testing release...
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 9:15 PM, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 06:49:34PM +0100, John Naggets wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just got a new Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 server and I am trying to >> install Debian 9.3 onto it. Unfortunately at the disk partitioning >> step it does not find any disks. It looks like Debian 9 does not have >> the kernel driver/module for its RAID card. >> >> The RAID card is a Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i which basically is a >> re-branded LSI card. lspci shows the following output: >> >> LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID Tri-Mode SAS3508 (rev 01) >> >> Any ideas how I could get Debian 9 running on this server with this RAID >> card? >> > > Older versions of that card have good support in the kernel under the > name megaraid_sas, so I would expect that you need a new kernel. > > Options: > > 1. debian-backports > 2. unstable > 3. install on to another disk, then compile a new kernel > 4. build your own installer with a new kernel > > It's not clear to me that it is in the kernel before the very > latest, 4.15. > > -dsr-
